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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fred SaberhagenStuart Douglas|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a VampireLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
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|summary=Holmes During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Watson are called in by a bereaved father whoLeggit's convinced , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a pair woman on the edge of spiritualists have deceived his wife by holding a séance in which their daughter seemed reservoir. The police seem happy to return. When assign it as an accidental death, but something about the pair attend a second séancewhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the girl comes back againhelp of a fellow actor, and it's clear that this is no ordinary trickJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Holmes gets assaulted and kidnapped, and Watson realises that for They travel across the second time in country during their investigative career they're dealing with vampires. He's left with only one choicedays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and turns , seemingly, a link to Holmes cousin, death during the legendary Prince Dracula, for aidSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848566778</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Walter Mosley0008517061|title=Devil Death in a Blue DressLonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Easy Rawlins is a little down on his luckFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, having just been laid off from has settled into his job and with a mortgage payment duerustic life at Little Sky. So when DeWitt Albright walks into Joppy's bar and offers him money for finding There’s perhaps a young woman who has gone missing, it seems like little uncertainty about the perfect opportunity for him to keep future of his life with his housevet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as well as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to pass some time. Of course, what Albright doesn't mention Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is that the reason he's looking future she wants for this woman is that she's run off with a large amount of someone else's money herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and quite a few people putting the future on the streets of Los Angeles are prepared to kill to get that money backburner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686830</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel D Victor1786482126|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Seventh BulletJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1911, author, journalist and celebrated dandy David Graham Phillips Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was shot multiple times by Harvard educated musician Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, who then committed suicide. The journalist had received on going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the morning bones of his death a threatening telegram signed child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his own nameDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but had shrugged it off as during Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his career child as a 'muckraker'result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to use the term coined for him by Theodore Roosevelt, he'd made many enemiessudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184856676X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0008551324|title=Love Songs From A Shallow GraveThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun is about It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to celebrate his seventy-fourth birthday but it looks as though it might be his lastapproach the police. Instead of being at home with Madam Daeng, his wife of three months, Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's in jailprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. It's not your average run-of-This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the-mill jail eitherpolice doing what he wants. Siri And what he wants is chained to some lead piping be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and conditions are not exactly five starto get an early parole date. Meanwhile Phosy Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Dtui are having marriage problems whilst he struggles she's even prepared to investigate do the deaths of three women, all skewered by an epee other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and their thighs showing a letter engraved anyone who works with a knifehim is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter James0008405026|title=Dead Like YouA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Brighton is faced with a serial rapist who appears to have a fetish for shoes - after the rape, he removes the womanIt's shoes and takes them with himsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is immediately reminded of a previous unsolved case that he She was involved in several years before, during which a young girl disappeared, never found and the investigation ground to be founda halt. It was precisely at that time that Grace's own wife Now, her mother, SandyHelena, disappeared and, although he is now having a child with another woman, he has never been able to forget Sandyher father are dead in their bed. If the rapist has reared his ugly head again Initially, why has he chosen to do so after so long? Could it be looks like a copycat rapist? And will Gracestraightforward murder/suicide but there's memories something about the positioning of Sandy help him to find some clue the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to her be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706878</amazonuk>: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giorgio Faletti0571379877|title=I KillThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Monte Carlo: not generally Edward Jevons is a place associated working-class young man, obsessed with moderation his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and temperance of any kind entitled and therefore probably the perfect setting uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a killing spree by a serial killer with relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a particular fetish for extreme souvenir gatheringdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849012954</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael RidpathJo Callaghan|title=Where the Shadows Lie (Fire and Ice)Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Magnus Jonson was in some difficulty in Boston. He'd overheard another detective getting himself involved in something illegal and when he reported this he When a man is found that even crucified on the good guys weren't terribly fond top of him – and the others would prefer a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see him dead before the case came to trialalongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The solution was simple but unusual: Jonson was born in Iceland although heIt'd mostly grown up in Boston s their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the police in Iceland wanted someone a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to give them some help in beefing up their murder squadAI Future Policing project. Jonson disappeared from BostonWill they be able to solve the case in time, telling no one where he was going or will Kat find herself taken off the case and resurfaced in Iceland. Simple, potentially, out of a career? No.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848873972</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1035021803|title=Death and the MaidenThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Edris Tidson used It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to grow bananas on Tenerifethe English country village where she grew up. Not the world capital She's back now because of banana growing so far as I knowa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, but I guess such plantations could have existed is dead and certainly the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they'd were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be believable when Mitchell penned this classic crime caper near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in 1947a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546833</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guillermo Orsi1398524085|title=No-one Loves a PolicemanHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It is December 2001 Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Argentina her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is in crisisnot. Pablo Martelli used to be a policeman – not just any policeman Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, but part find the body of a force now referred to as Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the National Shame' river. It was an easy assumption for its role doing horrible things the police to opponents of make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the military regimeguilt. Now he sells bathrooms, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but it seems he cannot escape his past – once a policeman, always a policemanget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694028</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Camilleri1529900360|title=The Wings of the SphinxGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Inspector Salvo Montalbano’s immediate reaction when Caterella rang him at home was It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that a dead man Alex Delaware had been found somewherebadly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Cat soon puts him right thoughHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. It’s a womanFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She’s been found, naked but particularly clean and on She knew that the edge of involvement was something that the local rubbish tipman she loved needed. Most of her face had been blown awayThe next case did look simple, which was going to make identification particularly difficultthough. Two things lovers were obvious though – she murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was particularly beautiful the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she had a tattoo is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of a butterfly on her shoulder blade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507648</amazonuk>them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mackenzie178763681X|title=City of StrangersKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chef Paul Metzger – mid thirties, with Delamare took a failed marriage, teaching job at a broken relationship with his brother (who converted residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to Judaism), but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and a dying father (who is an ex-Nazi). Straight away there are obvious flaws with his family dynamic. As his writing career fails women to take off do what hewanted. Paul 's left to churn out thousands of words for articles 'somehow'' got the impression that have no meaning he'd be at the school to himassist Paul, who had a broken arm, the dregs of the publishing world. His life isnbut it didn't quite as high flying as he hopedturn out that way. But then Paul gets offered a lucrative book deal; The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he has wanted hadn't expected was for yearssomeone to turn up dead. The only catch is Unfortunately, he has was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to write about his fatherbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Pelecanos1529421284|title=ShoedogLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you ever find yourself as It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a character in heatwave. In a work of fictiongully, it’s probably best to avoid hitchhikers. The chances are it’s going a human skeleton came to turn out very badly for either the driver or surface and forensic testing proved the hitchhiker - or bothbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Constantine is He'd been a denim-cladknown drug user and had learning disabilities, Marlboro-smoking, drifter and loner with so it could have been a strong sense simple case of right and wrong who has just returned from misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a period townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of travelling around Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the world time. Lockyer and is heading south back home in DC Gemma Broad of the US when he is picked up by a man named Polk, driving a muscle carMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate. So what could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie1529425867|title=Night-ScentedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Isabelle Arbaud In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is determined to make her mark in the world of luxury brandsNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. Most perfumes are off-shoots He's not any of established fashion houses those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (or celebrity names, but letreading's not go down ''thatreally'' roadhis thing), but Isabelle has poached her rival's most talented perfumer and given him free rein to produce an irresistible scent which will take her upstart fashion house straight to the tophis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. But – it would seem that someone is determined that she wonThey't succeedre usually in lime green or acid yellow. First on and then a second of her financial backers died, the first in circumstances which You might have been wonder if you're being introduced to a accidentpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but probably wasnyou'tre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. About Sometimes the second there could be no doubtcombination works brilliantly well. Two bullet holes are fairly conclusive evidence of a suspicious deathSometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251811</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pauline Rowson1529431735|title=The Suffocating Sea: A DI Horton Marine Mystery Crime NovelWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Anyone who loves murder mystery novels will know there It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a big difference between wanted drug smuggler for a policeman and decade. The return has come about because he's had a copperletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and Pauline Rowson’s character DI Andy Horton in The Suffocating Sea is every bit a copperhasn't long to live. Tough on the outsideIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, soft on the inside Horton is just the chap stripped to his underwear and sent to start nosing around a suspicious fire on board watery grave in the boot of a boat – at least that’s where stolen Ford Sierra. Is it starts, because DI Horton is about a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to discover he is more involved in the mystery than just as an investigating officer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955098246</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cara Black0861541774|title=Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Aimée Leduc is back and this time she might just have found the sister sheDCI Domenic Jejeune's always longed forclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When Maik was involved in a Haitian woman arrived in the offices of Leduc detective in central Paris and announced street brawl - he would later maintain that she he was Aimée's father's illegitimate daughter Aimée allowed enthusiasm to overrule logic as she'd been lonely since her mother's disappearance facing a man armed with a knife - and her father's deathhe killed a Ghurka. RenéInitially, her partner in Leduc Detective, is wary he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he can't dissuade Aimée. It's not long before she's involved in the murky world of Haitian politics and might have planned to murder in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Harvey|title=A Darker Shade of Blue|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=There are eighteen short stories covering the East Midlands, those parts of London you'd generally really rather avoid and rural East Angliaman. You'll see broken families, revenge killings, prostitution and drugsNow he could be facing the death penalty. There's corruption – not unusual when you have an overstretched Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force and underpaid men and women staffing it. And then there are the people who, in spite of everything, fight for justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548232</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gladys Mitchell|title=The Mystery of could provoke a Butcher's Shop|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=A body is found in a butcher's shop one morning in Wandles Parva. It has been expertly chopped up diplomatic incident and hung just like a piece of pork, but because it is missing a head, identification is impossible. There are soon suggestions that it must be Rupert Sethleigh, a land-owner who had supposedly gone to the US. His cousin, Jim Redsey is the obvious suspect. The two men didnwouldn't like each other - in fact, nobody actually liked Rupert Sethleighhelp Danny at all. The local vicar's daughter, Felicity, and Aubrey, related to Jim and Rupert, decide to play detective. Before long, they are joined by Mrs Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, an elderly woman who fancies herself a detective. Can they sort out the red herrings and find the killer? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954685X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Cave1521129886|title=For Everything a ReasonThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Joseph RuebinsGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. He is one second away from It's a very satisfying climax to his boxing career, and winding up for his ultimate punch, when he freezes, good job too because Greg and suffers Joyce will soon have a stroke, baby and ends up in hospitalthey're both delighted. Overnight someone kills Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the elderly man morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the next bed-law appears to have killed himself. MeanwhileStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, a policeman hunts down the man who killed his 's struggling to make ends meet and her sonis not thriving. Where are the connecting links Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and how could the fact coroner have accepted that Joseph the death was put in the wrong ward due suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to a mishap with find out what happened on the forms imperil the rest of his close-knit family?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956236898</amazonuk>night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby LittB0CK3MYJ56|title=King DeathResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Skelton, thatIt's the musician, adores his girlfriend1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. SheHe used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's certainly exotic with now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike' , you might be thinking.Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something.. her hair ... like black oil flowing over a stone.' HoweverJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they are only were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a heartbeat away from breaking up when it happenstragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. What looks like some internal part of the bodyJoyce - and her parents, animal Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or even human is hurled from how she could come to fall in front of a London train. The pair just happen Greg's been asked to be travelling on that very train and they also just happen to witness this unsavoury actioninvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039728</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Galbraith1838954481|title=No Sorrow to Die: An Alice Rice MysteryThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Straight away, DS Rice has Ryan Kennedy killed a gruesome murder on her hands. The victim, a Mr Brodie (a suitably Scottish name) has had to give up a lucrative and interesting career due to ill-health. Hepolice officer: there's now merely existingno doubt about that. He's waiting to die, basicallywas the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He wants pulled the trigger but due to die. So straight away, the plot starts to thicken nicely. We're introduced to a clutch vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of characters, or, more appropriately, suspects. Apart from both the murder and the immediate family, manslaughter of the extended family, there's also various others, home helps etcofficer. It seems several people have an axe to grind as far as the recently deceased Mr Brodie is concernedAnd so lives must go on. You have to ask yourself For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the question at this point, whocountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'd murder s drawn into a frail, almostwider investigation -dead man? It would take a particularly callous person. Mr Brodie would have been virtually unable to have put up any sort and back into the orbit of struggle. It would have been similar to killing a tiny, helpless kittenRyan Kennedy. He's so far gone, why not just play the waiting game?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971640</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1448309743|title=Death at the OperaThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Miss Ferris would not normally have been entertained for a major part in Hillmaston School's production In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of The Mikado. She was self-effacingScotland, meek and not very talented. But – she had offered to finance the cost five members of the production and this swung matters in her favoura wealthy family are found murdered. It did mean that she couldn't afford The only item missing from the holiday she had planned for the summer and had to spend it in her aunt's boarding house, but she'd been pleased to make the gesture as she'd been happy at home is the school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099546841</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barrie Roberts|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock HolmesDevil Stone: The Man From Hell|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Noted West Country philanthropist Lord Backwater iskilled – by poachers, according to the police investigating. His sondisagrees, and calls in Sherlock Holmes, who quickly establishes myth says thatthe true solution to if the mystery stone is much stranger – involving a fearedcriminal brotherhood, crimes removed from many years pastOtterburn House, and the Gates ofHell themselvesdeath will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565089</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=H Paul Jeffers|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Stalwart Companions|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=After replying to an article written by the world's first consultingdetective, Sherlock Holmes, young Teddy Roosevelt, about to study lawat Columbia, strikes up a correspondence with him. They're pleased tofinally meet when Holmes is acting in America – and naturally,Roosevelt introduces him to another friend, NYPD Detective WillHargreaves. Of course, foul play is in the air – and the three men only suspects areled into an investigation which starts off as 'just' a dead body, known Satanists butleads them to discover a plot against the President himself,Rutherford Hayes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848565097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Lambert|title=Any Human Face|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=1983: Alex enjoys the attention of his latest lover. Bruno is generous with his money and his time; he lends Alex the flash car, dines him extravagantly, treats him wellin many ways, takes him seriously. "It was not that he was not fond of the older man… or that he didn't appreciate the longer term view of a leg-up into journalism…", it's just an easy conclusion given that he doesn't realise he is lying to himself. What he feels for Bruno is a bit more than affection, as he is about to discover.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512994</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=S J Rozan|title=Trail two of Blood|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Lydia Chin takes on a new case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarsky, to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired for her ability to operate in New York Citythem 's Chinese community. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilderdiscovered's story, told through letters written to her mother, and when Joel is shot dead the next day, being fired by the client doesn't stop her wanting to find out morebody. She The Senior Investigating Office is glad DCI Bob Oswald but when her old associate Bill Smithhe disappears, who has been out of touch for a while, returns DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to help her. This detective story linking past and present is compulsive reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Craig Robertson|title=Random|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man is planning his first murder and he's doing it with some care. Weshadow'll gradually realise that he's been making preparations for some time but the oddest thing is that this murder must be completely random. He mustn't be diverted from his chosen system even if the person who is selected is someone he would rather not kill. It's not a whodunit – for the killer tells us the story as it progresses – or even a 'why did he do it' as even that will become obvious, but the suspense is in whether or not he will get caughthim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1529077699|title=A Room Swept WhiteThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's a classic Agatha Christie style hook at the start of this story. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with no message other than sixteen numbers arranged in four rows of four. On the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot death mothers and miscarriages of justice. Simultaneously, one of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocket. Work out what the numbers mean and you will find the killer. But as this is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have to note every detail in every part of the book to reach the right conclusion. The plot has more twists than a spiral staircase, though there are clues that could help you, including one rather cheeky feature - if you can spot it. Sadly, I didn't until I was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Stratford|title=Double Jeopardy|rating=2.5|genre=Crime|summary=Celebrating her release from 18 months under cover busting a drugs gang, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets her cherished Aunt Jo for dinner. Just across from the restaurant, in a dark alley, a man stands watching. As the two women leave the restaurant, a motorcycle rounds the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined to attract attention – shots ring out. Two bodies hit the ground.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Janes|title=The Pull of the Moon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=The main story, the events in KateIt's memoryall bloody peculiar, is set in summer 1972. Simonisn's uncle has gone away for a few months and Simon and his friend Danny are meant to be doing some work on the garden over the holiday. Danny brings his girlfriend Kate alongt it, and Trudie invites herself to join them a couple of weeks later. How did a summer of lounging around and drinking with a little work on the garden end in murderSir? And what can Kate tell Danny's mother Mrs Ivanisovic?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010463</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Kelly1529427045|title=Death Watch|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen years later to the day, her twin brother Bryan's body is found The Girl in the hospital incinerator where he worked. There is no evidence to suggest accident or suicide, and the police quickly treat it as a murder. They not only need to find out who did it, but to work out the link between BryanEagle's murder and the disappearance and presumed death of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into the family and a nearby hostel for homeless men.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTalons|author=Dorothy Koomson|title=The Ice Cream GirlsKarin Smirnoff
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|summary=Poppy and Serena, labelled 'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious press, have their young lives shattered by the man they shared, a teacher in a position of trust, who controlled them in the worst possible ways. The girls are trapped as victims because neither Life has the assertiveness or maturity more to handle the situation. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situation. Now twenty years on, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesoffer than people - prime numbers for example''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Aird1787636607|title=Past TenseThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5
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|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the refreshments morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for mourners after a funeral, not least because she had never met way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the deceased and was unaware night bus that her husband was will only go as far as one of the next of kinoutlying villages. He was working The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in South America and not expected home for sometimethe light of 'the missing women'. Josephine Short has obviously been For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a feisty character thoughlong way short of her home. Despite being unmarried She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) and amassed a considerable fortunethe chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeralThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1405957174|title=The GuardsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
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|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate From the apparent suicide of her teenage daughter in Galwayfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Jack The victim - a man - is ex Irish police (Garda) but also a known alcoholic with nothing much else in his life. His approach dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to investigation is haphazard - call the ambulance he doesnso desperately needs. What we don't really have a method beyond asking direct questions and, if necessary, using his fists. Predictably, there know is who the man is more or why Nadine prefers to the suicide case than first meets the eye and Jack, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and levels of corruption within the cityhave him die. I''The Guards'' is not your conventional crime thriller; itd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's darker and has a grim realismhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman0008530025|title=All That I HaveMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the internet grows garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and technology advances, it's seems there is nothing you cannow the subject of ''Infamous''t do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent and cars are more automated than ever, a true-crime show. Huge online games allow users worldwide A group of experts has been brought together to interact review the evidence and play against each other in huge arenasto take the investigation further. Thanks More to social networking, the internet can be addictive andpoint, yesthey're going to do this live on camera, Iepisode by episode. There'm aware s no dump of the irony in writing that herewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken Bruen|title=The Killing of the Tinkers|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legs. He's been lying low 'over the water' in London, licking his wounds. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him a more Irish name) is a middle-aged, washed-up, disgraced ex-cop. As if that wasn't bad enough, he also has a lot of very bad habits. He acknowledges however that 'the new world is designed for non-smokers.' He also admits quite freely and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams to rival that of any Vietnam vet.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dave Zeltserman0241996104|title=Killer|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight Coming to the heart of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Hunter|title=I, Sniper|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Find You don't often find novels or films based on the art of the sniper. Hiding out for hours motionless and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for as interesting a story as a face to face shoot out. But with 'I, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed to combine the art of the sniper with the art of the crime thriller in a decent read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Casey|title=The MissingCorry
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In 1992, Sarah FinchNancy's twelve year old mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soon.'' Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting to find out what happened to him. Now in her twentiesMartin, Sarah is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholismbeen convicted of their murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Burdett|title=The Godfather of Kathmandu|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' We first meet Nancy outside the son of a brothel madam and an American GIcourt, but it's the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold up his promotion in the Thai police force, where he's after Martin receives a detectivelife sentence. HeThe barrister tells her that she's also the part owner of received a brothel where his mother, Nong, is the madam in charge. It'silent sentence' - she's no problem not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has a few illegal interests the rest of his ownher life. HeOf course, it's currently in competition with the head of the army, General Zinna, to see who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchaimade worse because Nancy's Kathmandurich -based guru has for sale.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard North Patterson|title=The Spire|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the body of a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at papers are making the foot most of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects that his best friend will be charged with the murderit. Now, sixteen years later, Darrow ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is back, at the invitation of his mentor one favourite epithet and now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years). As Darrow digs into what happened with the college finances, he also begins to look afresh at the trial of his friend and questions if he really was guilty as charged. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provost's troubled, 'rich bitch'' might not be printed but beautiful, daughteris undoubtedly spoken. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1529413680|title=Among ThievesA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the United Statesscript. The police investigation failed to find them Luckily, his doctor is there and many felt they were lost foreverthe man is whisked away in a helicopter. But soon A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the paintings man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and their whereabouts would be impacting on many peopleanother, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>friends for a pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1529196388|title=Dark Entries|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=The producers of Dark Entries, the latest hit reality TV show, are worried. Yes the six housemates are there, present and correct, and are ready to be scared witless en route to the one way out, and the brilliant prize that might await them somewhere in the merry-go-round of horror that is their new home. They are already being scared witless, by phantoms - but that's nothing to do with the TV producers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848563426</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrial|author=David Baldacci|title=True BlueRob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, ex-criminal-defence attorney, now so there was public uproar when he was murdered in private practice, leaves his office very late one nightplain sight at the Old Bailey. HeThere's met by just one man in the FBI. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working out, trying to stay fitcourt, trying to stay sane, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple of dayscharged with Cliveden' times murder. Perry Knight was told that the best barrister for him was a cop. UnderJonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-coverCameron and his pupil, maverick and darn good at her jobAdam Green, who eventually represent him. Until she ended up stoned on methKnight's determined to plead not guilty, busted for robbery, convicted and sent downdespite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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